Built on Bones - by Brenna Hassett (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>Using clues from teeth and skeletal remains, an archeologist explores our 15,000-year evolution into city dwellers, from our first settlements to the urban sprawl of the Industrial Age.</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Humans and their immediate ancestors were successful hunter-gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years, but in the last fifteen thousand years humans have gone from finding food to farming it, from seasonal camps to sprawling cities, from a few people to hordes. Drawing on her own fieldwork in the Mediterranean, Africa, Asia, and beyond, archeologist Brenna Hassett explores the long history of urbanization through revolutionary changes written into the bones of the people who lived it. <p/>For every major new lifestyle, another way of dying appeared. From the cradle of civilization in the ancient Near East to the dawn of agriculture on the American plains, skeletal remains and fossils show evidence of shorter lives, rotten teeth, and growth interrupted. The scarring on human skeletons reveals that getting too close to animals had some terrible consequences, but so did getting too close to too many other people. <p/>Each chapter of <i>Built on Bones</i> moves forward in time, discussing in depth humanity's great urban experiment. Hassett explains the diseases, plagues, epidemics, and physical dangers we have unwittingly unleashed upon ourselves throughout the urban past--and, as the world becomes increasingly urbanized, what the future holds for us. In a time when Paleo lifestyles are trendy and so many of us feel the pain of the city daily grind, this book asks the critical question: Was it worth it?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Filled with surprising facts and insights. - <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Brenna Hassett</b> is an archaeologist who specializes in using clues from the human skeleton to understand how people lived and died in the past. Her research focuses on the evidence of health and growth locked into teeth, and she uses dental anthropological techniques to investigate how children grew (or didn't) across the world and across time. <p/>She has dug poor Roman-period burials near the Giza pyramids, surveyed every last inch of a remote Greek island (with a goat-to-human ratio of 350:1), famous for the Antikythera mechanism, and accidentally crumbled an 8,000 year old mud brick wall at the famous central Anatolian site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. <p/>@brennawalks / trowelblazers.com</p>
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